Getting ready for Central America
It doesn’t feel right welding plates on the doors of the van, but I need to add some extra security. “If you want to take it, you’ve got to earn it”. I was really lucky...
Monthly Archive: October 2015
VanLIfe at the Hilton
Together again!!! but only for a few hrs. Amelia is over in the LA area for work and have 40h together 😉 And this is a demonstration on how to combine VanLife and Hotel
Elephant Seals Piedras Blancas
Just a few minutes north of Hearst Castle at San Simeon, a scenic turnout provides a nice view north, towards Piedras Blancas Light Station. Where you can find hundreds of Elephant seals chilling at...
PCH Route 1 San Francisco to LA
Pacific Coast Highway (also called PCH) is one of America’s most famous highways (probably second to Route 66). Stretching from the southern tip of Baja California to the top of the Olympic peninsula, the highway...
San Fogcisco
After 3 weeks living in the van, sleeping in truck stops, showering in the river, Amelia decided to get us a flat on air bnb. The couple that hosted us were nice and the...
Lake Tahoe
Ancestral inhabitants of the Lake Tahoe area called the Lake “Da ow a ga,” which means “edge of the lake;” the tribe considers Lake Tahoe as a sacred life-sustaining water, and the center of...
Visiting Amelia’s family
Amelia has relatives from her dad side living close to lake Tahoe. So on the way to the lake we stop for a branch with her auntie Sandee, then we headed to Reno to catch her...
Justin & Melissa tiny house
I met Justin & Melissa in Alaska in July, and promise a visit when in California, so Amelia and I stopped over for a some alaskan salmon, yahtzee game and a great evening with those...
Hiking Half Dome
Hiking Half Dome was exciting, scary, exhausting and damn awesome! 13km trail, 1,460m of elevation gain, the last 3km is very strenuous, including several metres of granite stairs. The final 120 m ascent is...